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Yielding, like ice about to melt. -- Laozi
Yielding is the way of the Tao. -- Laozi
Yielding is the manner of the Way. -- Laozi
Yielding flexibility is a virtue of an ever-expanding heart. -- Molly Friedenfeld
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it. -- Honore de Balzac
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life. -- Oswald Chambers
Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost. -- Richard G. Scott
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. -- Billy Sunday
Yielding your inner life to God will empower you to live the kind of outer life that honors the Lord and blesses others. -- Jim George
Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible. -- Jane Swisshelm
I deal with temptation by yielding to it. -- Mark Twain
The old order changes yielding place to new. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Principles have a way of yielding to power. -- Bette Lord
Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. -- John Fletcher
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment. -- Blaise Pascal
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. -- Edmund Burke
Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer. -- Ovid
Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking. -- T.F. Hodge
The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems. -- Ann Voskamp
Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. [Valor that parleys is near yielding.] -- George Herbert
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. -- George Henry Lewes
The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding. -- Laozi
By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected. -- Dale Carnegie
I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being. -- Esther Hicks
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise, -- Pope Francis
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. -- Clarence Darrow
Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression. -- James E. Faust
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. -- Robert Breault
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning. -- Sugata Mitra
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. -- Eckhart Tolle
Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong. -- Laozi
Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy. -- Sai Baba
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. -- William Wordsworth
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life. -- Laozi
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment. -- Sheri S. Tepper
Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -- Rick Riordan
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. -- Joseph Campbell
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest! -- John Buchanan Robinson
Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal. -- Laozi
If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse. -- Beryl Markham
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few. -- Laozi
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. -- Dean Acheson
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers. -- Peter Weiss
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force? -- Honore de Balzac
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. -- Philip Sidney
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry. -- Laozi
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. -- Quentin Crisp
There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5) -- Billy Graham
The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear". -- J. P. McEvoy
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God. -- George Whitefield
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. -- Queen Elizabeth II
When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding. -- Socrates
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him. -- J. I. Packer
Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs. -- David Holmgren
A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat. -- Thomas Browne
If you are prepared for some risk, junk bonds pay about 5%, but they tend to get whacked when interest rates rise. Same with lower-yielding but higher-quality corporate bonds. -- Kenneth Fisher
We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary. -- Boyd K. Packer
We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment. -- Antonin Sertillanges
It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet. -- Charles Dickens
We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes. -- Rebecca Lim
Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning. -- Anthony Marra
Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested. -- Aldo Leopold
God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us. -- Allan Kardec
[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16) -- Joseph Campbell
The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse. -- Anthony Burgess
The husband who 'serves' his wife by continually yielding to her desires or her wishes is in fact asking her to do his job for him. He's ignoring his responsibility to lead. -- Bob Lepine
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now. -- Esther Hicks
The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater. -- Plutarch
Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup. -- Claudius Claudianus
A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash. -- Eduard Bernstein
It is the purity of man's heart and mind, and his innocent and faithful approach to action with the purpose of all good to everyone, which really succeeds in yielding maximum results with minimum effort. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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